Just today I completed a successful visit to the Registry of Motor Vehicles in Massachusetts. This may not seem like a huge...

Nora is 4 years old. She and her family have traveled to the United States seeking asylum. It has been a long and difficult journey, but...

Through my life I have had more than one experience that has brought me to my knees. Like many people, I have had sudden and unexpected...

In recent news, the Dominican author Junot Diaz wrote a deeply resonant account of his childhood rape and the lifelong effect the trauma...

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I admit it, I was a little miffed when Oprah came on 60 minutes to uncover a “Life changing story”—her discovery of the ACE report and...

Several years back I was sitting around a kitchen table chatting with two friends with whom I am very close. One of them was Paula (name...

Can we feel empathy in our bodies? What exactly does it feel like? How will we know when we feel it? Try this little test. Click on the...

Not too long ago I received an email from a new friend. We had just spent five days together with several colleagues working on a book of...